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• What is BODY WORLDS?
• The original exhibition of real human bodies
• Human and animal bodies are preserved by
  Plastination
• The exhibitions have been touring for 10 years
  and have been seen by more than 25 million people

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• What is Plastination?
• A process invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens to
  preserve specimens for medical education
• Bodily fluids and fat are replaced with liquid
  plastic then hardened with gas, heat or light
• The specimens are preserved and never decay
• It can take 1,500 hours of work to plastinate a
  whole body

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• What can we learn?
• What is inside your body, and what the different
  organs do
• How the body works and how it can break down
• How the way we live affects our bodies
• What the human body looks like and how it
  functions is basic life science information that
  should be available to everyone

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• What will we see?
• Plastinated human bodies in different poses
• Plastinated organs like hearts, lungs, kidneys
• Transparent body slices
• Pre-natal specimens (embryos foetuses)
• Corrosion specimens - like this one The
  veins and arteries have been filled with plastic

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• Can we touch them?
• Touching is not allowed, but you will be able to
  get very close
• The specimens are preserved like plastic and
  dont smell
• Photographs and films, including with mobile
  phones, are not allowed

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• Where do the bodies come from?
• People donate their bodies to be plastinated and
  used for education after they die
• More than 9,000 people are on the donor register
  
• Some of the embryos and foetuses come from
  other, older collections
• The animals are donated by zoos and died of
  natural causes

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• What is The Mirror of Time all about?
• Its about human development from
• conception to old age
• Its about the body living through time as it
• changes, grows, matures, peaks and wanes
• Its about the way who we are now
• influences the person we will become

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• How long does it take to go round?
• We will be in the exhibition for (time planned -
  allow 1 - 2 hours)
• How long you take depends on whether you read
  all the displays
• (optional)
• There are some exercises we can do as we go
  around
• We can have a debate / discussion afterwards

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